The Potential of Reutilized Ship Timbers for Shipbuilding Studies: the Case of Boqueirão do Duro (Lisbon, Portugal)

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Lisbon, The Tagus And The Global Navigation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The urban requalification works on the Lisbon waterfront have frequently exposed traces of vessels and port structures or containment structures on the banks of the Tagus River. Many of these structures incorporate reused ship timbers. Archaeological excavations carried at the Boqueirão do Duro, Santos, in 2016 revealed several archaeological remains from the 18th to the 19th centuries, including the remains of a factory named Vulcano e Colares and an ancient beach and later port archaeological context. The waterfront archaeological contexts were wide-ranging. There were several timbers from a large ship disassembled on the beach, port structures that reused ship elements, and an assemblage of pre-shaped timbers. Among the disassembled timbers there are keels, keelsons, stems, floor timbers, futtocks, hull-planks, wooden sheathing, and three complete bilge pumps. The study of these types of contexts and the reuse of nautical pieces in harbor structures has a high potential for archaeological research.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• Lisbon, The Tagus And The Global Navigation

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